Earle Rodney
{{short description|Canadian screenwriter}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Earle Rodney
| image = Earl Rodney, silent film actor (SAYRE 8714).jpg
| caption = Rodney in 1924
| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|6|4|df=y}}
| birthname = Earle Rodney Hupp[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140905480/earle_rodney-hupp Gravestone], findagrave.com. Accessed 9 April 2025.
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1932|12|16|1888|6|4|df=y}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, US
| years_active = 1915–1932
| occupation = Screenwriter, actor, film director
}}
Earle Rodney ({{ne}} Earle Rodney Hupp; 4 June 1888 – 16 December 1932) was a Canadian screenwriter, actor, and film director. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1926 and 1947 (posthumous credit). He also acted in 69 films between 1915 and 1929, often paired with Dorothy Devore. He was born in Toronto, and died in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia.{{cite news |date=19 December 1932 |work=Los Angeles Record |page=9|title=Film Actor Dies}}
Selected filmography
File:Shades of Shakespeare (1919) - Lake & Rodney.jpg and Earle Rodney in Shades of Shakespeare (1919)]]
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- The Nick of Time Baby (1916 – acted)
- Whose Baby? (1917 – acted)
- Keys of the Righteous (1918 – acted)
- Naughty, Naughty (1918)
- The Biggest Show on Earth (1918)
- The City of Tears (1918)
- Know Thy Wife (1918)
- A Roman Scandal (1919 – acted)
- Her Bridal Nightmare (1920 – acted)
- Crazy to Act (1927 – director)
- Heart Trouble (1928 – writer)
- The Campus Vamp (1928 – writer)
- Girl Crazy (1929 – acted)
- The Old Barn (1929 – writer)
- The Bees' Buzz (1929 – writer)
- Midnight Daddies (1930, writer)
- Ghost Parade (1931 – writer)
- I Surrender Dear (1931 – writer)
- One More Chance (1931 – writer)
- Dream House (1931 – writer)
- Billboard Girl (1932 – writer)
- The Road to Hollywood (1947 – material)
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References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|0734931}}
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Category:20th-century Canadian male actors
Category:Deaths from pneumonia in California
Category:Canadian male screenwriters
Category:Canadian male film actors
Category:Film directors from Toronto
Category:Male actors from Toronto
Category:Screenwriters from Toronto
Category:20th-century Canadian screenwriters
Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States
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